Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to follow the way of peace and turn away from evil, particularly in our thoughts. 

⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
    Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They don’t know the way of peace;
    and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made crooked paths for themselves;
    whoever goes in them…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak truthfully and act with justice

¹¹ We all roar like bears
    and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
    for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹² For our sins testify against us;
    and our transgressions are with us,
¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh,
    and turning away from following our God,
    speaking oppression and…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to put on righteousness and salvation, particularly in the face of untruths. 

¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking;
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Yahweh saw it,
    and it displeased him that there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
    and his righteousness…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to act appropriately,
knowing when to challenge what is wrong
and when to be gracious to those who wrong us.  

¹⁸ According to their deeds,
    he will repay as appropriate,
    wrath to his adversaries,
    recompense to his enemies;
    he will repay the islands their due.
¹⁹ So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to listen to and speak your words today 

²⁰ “A Redeemer will come to Zion,
    and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

²¹ “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh.
“My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth,
nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to allow your glory to be on us and in us so that others may live in your light

¹ “Arise, shine; for your light has come,
    and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
² For, behold, darkness will cover the earth,
    and thick darkness the peoples;
but Yahweh will arise on you,
    and his glory shall be seen on you.
³ Nations will come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to lift up our eyes today and perceive you present among us, so that our hearts may thrill and be enlarged with your grace, and proclaim your praises. 

⁴ “Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
    they all gather themselves together.
    They come to you.
Your sons will come from far away,
    and your daughters will be carried in arms.
⁵ Then you shall see and be radiant,
    and…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have hope for the future

[Isaiah had a vision of things being put right in the future]

[There will be ample supply of animals required for temple sacrifice]

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you.
    The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.
They will be accepted as offerings on my altar;
    and I will beautify my glorious house.

[The number of ships bringing the exiled sons home to Jerusalem will be so great that their sails…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in an open handed and open hearted way

[Isaiah, still in Exile, has hope for the future]

¹⁰ “Foreigners will build up your walls,       [which the Babylonians tore down]
    and their kings will serve you:
for in my wrath I struck you,       [and allowed the Babylonians to take the Jews into exile]
    but in my favour I have had mercy on you.    [Allowing the Jews to return]

[Isaiah, has a vision of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to walk with you today and find joy in you

¹³ “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet [i.e. the temple] glorious.
¹⁴ The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; [those who took the Jews into exile]
    and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.
They will call you Yahweh’s City,
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to allow you to be our light, so that we are governed by peace and righteousness

¹⁷ For bronze I will bring gold;
    for iron I will bring silver;
    for wood, bronze,
    and for stones, iron.
I will also make peace your governor,
    and righteousness your ruler.
¹⁸ Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    nor desolation or destruction within your borders…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be patient as we wait for your kingdom to come and your will to be done

²⁰ Your sun will not go down any more,
    nor will your moon withdraw itself;
for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
    and the days of your mourning will end.
²¹ Then your people will all be righteous.
    They will inherit the land forever,
    the branch of my planting,
   …

Isaiah 61:1–2
God has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, 
to bind up the broken hearted, 
to proclaim liberty to the captives, 
and release to the prisoners, 
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.

Deep reading: Read slowly and pause on any word or phrase that especially speaks to you, touches you or awakens something in you.  
Deep meditation: Allow yourself time to reflect on whatever in the text calls to your attention and reflect on why that word or phrase might have such appeal to you. 
Deep prayer: Turn your…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to do this: 

¹ The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
    because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
    to proclaim liberty to the captives
    and release to those who are bound,
 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to those who mourn and those who have a spirit of heaviness

^[The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
    because Yahweh has anointed me…]   
² to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favour
    and the day of vengeance of our God,
    to comfort all who mourn,
³ to provide for those who mourn in Zion,
    to give to them a garland for ashes,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to fulfil our calling to be your servants. 

⁴ They will rebuild the old ruins.
    They will raise up the former devastated places.
They will repair the ruined cities
    that have been devastated for many generations.
⁵ Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
    Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
⁶ But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.
    Men will…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to find joy in living faithfully in covenant relationship with you, doing what is Just. 

⁷ Instead of your shame you will have double.
    Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
    Everlasting joy will be to them.
⁸ “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
    I hate robbery and iniquity.
I will give them their reward in truth
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be righteous in all that we do and say, so that our lives may praise you

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
    My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
    He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
    as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
¹¹ For as the earth produces its bud,
 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and your righteousness

¹  For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
    and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
    and her salvation like a burning lamp.
² The nations will see your righteousness,
    and all kings your glory.
You will be called by a new name,
    which…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today tp call out to you in good times and in bad times

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
    They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
⁷     and give him no rest, until he establishes,
    and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to work for economic and social justice

⁸ Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
    and by the arm of his strength,
“Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies,
    and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have laboured,
⁹ but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh.
    Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as Holy People who have been saved from the power of sin and death

¹⁰ Go through, go through the gates!
    Prepare the way of the people!
Build up, build up the highway!
    Gather out the stones!
    Lift up a banner for the peoples.
¹¹ Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
    “Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ‘Behold, your salvation comes!…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have hope that you will save particularly when judgement falls on unrighteousness.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
   Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength?
   “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
² Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
  ³ “I have trodden the wine…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak in word and deed about your love

⁷ I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
    and the praises of Yahweh,
    according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
    which he has given to them according to his mercies,
    and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
⁸ For he said, “Surely, they are my people,
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to remember your love and power shown when you brought your people out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and know that the same spirit is with us today. 

¹¹ “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
    Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
¹² Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
    Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
^13…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call out to you for help when we need help

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
    The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
[We need your care, Lord, and it seems to be lacking]

¹⁶ For you are our Father,
    though Abraham doesn’t know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us.
You,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to joyfully do what is right, and to remember you in all our ways, so that your name may be known to others. 

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens,
    that you would come down,
    that the mountains might quake at your presence.
² As when fire kindles the brushwood,
    and the fire causes the water to boil;
Make your name known to your adversaries,
    that the…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call on your name, to stir ourselves up and take hold of you

⁵ Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
    We have been in sin for a long time.
    Shall we be saved?
⁶ For we have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷ There is no one who calls…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as those who have been made in your image. 

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
    We are the clay and you our potter.
    We all are the work of your hand.
⁹ Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
    Don’t remember iniquity forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
    we are all your people.
¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
    Zion has…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to think as you think, and to be humble

¹ “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
    I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
    I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
² I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
    who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
³ a people who provoke me to my face continually,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to not give up on people who have strayed from the right path, just as you don’t give up on people. 

⁸ Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’
so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹ I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.
My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.
^10…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to listen to you, particularly when we are tempted to do things which are not good.

¹¹ “But you who forsake Yahweh,
    who forget my holy mountain,
    who prepare a table for Fortune,
    and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
¹² I will destin you to the sword,
    and you will all bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you didn’t answer.
    When I spoke, you didn…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to serve you and other people

¹³ Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,“Behold, my servants will eat,
    but you will be hungry;
behold, my servants will drink,
    but you will be thirsty.
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
    but you will be disappointed;
¹⁴ Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,
    but you will cry for sorrow of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to all, including ourselves

^{[There will be an end to unrighteousness]
15} You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.

^{[But righteousness is altogether different]]}
He will call his servants by another name,
¹⁶     so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;
    and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the hope of a new heaven and a new earth

¹⁷ “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
    and the former things will not be remembered,
    nor come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
    for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
    and her people a joy.
¹⁹ I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
    …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate towards those who carry immense sorrow

²⁰ “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
    nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
    and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate to those who suffer economic injustice

²¹ They will build houses and inhabit them.
    They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They will not build and another inhabit.
    They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
²³ They will not labour in vain
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to speak our deepest desires to you today

²⁴ It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
    and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in hope for peace

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
    The lion will eat straw like the ox.
    Dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
    says Yahweh.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have a contrite spirit. 

1 Yahweh says,

“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
    What kind of house will you build to me?      Where will I rest?
…